The encyclopaedia of arable weeds

This definitive guide to arable weeds in the UK contains full colour photographs for identification plus information on life cycles, location, biology and management

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The encyclopaedia of arable weeds

The encyclopaedia of arable weeds has been around 10 years and has taken up residence in numerous tractor cabs, car boots and farm offices across the UK.

Originally put together with combined funds from AHDB and Defra, the essential easy-reference guide was rebranded in 2018. Although the content has not been changed this time around, the new look makes it even easier to identify and manage arable weeds.

For each weed, there are two pages of information (structured identically). The common and the scientific name are clearly marked at the top of the page. A more detailed description then follows under the headings; Life cycle, Location, Description (including key features), Biology and Management.

To aid identification, the encyclopaedia is packed full of high quality photographs of weeds at various growth stages.

A simple glossary of technical terms can also be found at the end of the encyclopaedia.

Further species, as well as identification keys, can be accessed from the web-based encyclopaedia cereals.ahdb.org.uk/awe.

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Introduction, contents and glossary

Common names A to C

Common names D to P

Common names Q to Z

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Topics:

Wheat Barley Oilseed Rape Weeds Soils

Sectors:

Cereals & Oilseeds Potatoes

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Annual meadow-grass Awned canary-grass Barren brome Field bean sugar beet bent Bindweed Black-grass Black mustard Black nightshade Broad-leaved dock Brome Campion Canadian fleabane canary-grass wild carrot Charlock Chickweed common Cleavers Cock’s-foot Common chickweed Common couch Common field-speedwell Common fumitory Common hemp-nettle Common mouse-ear Common nettle Common orache Common poppy Common vetch Corn spurrey Cornflower Couch common Couch crane’s-bill creeping thistle crested dog’s-tail Curled dock Cut-leaved crane’s-bill Daisy Dandelion Dead-nettle Dock Fat hen fescue Field bean Field bindweed Field forget-me-not Field horsetail Field pansy Fleabane fluellin Fool’s parsley Forget-me-not Fumitory garlic mustard Great brome Green field-speedwell Groundsel Hedge mustard Hedge-parsley hemlock Hemp-nettle Henbit dead-nettle horsetail Italian rye-grass Ivy-leaved speedwell Knapweed Knot-grass Linseed Long-headed poppy loose silky bent Mayweed Meadow brome Meadow-grass Mouse-ear Mustard black Mustard Nettle Nightshade nipplewort wild oat onion couch Orache Pale persicaria Pansy Parsley Perennial rye-grass Perennial sow-thistle Persicaria Pineappleweed scarlet pimpernel Poppy Potato Prickly sow-thistle Radish ragwort red dead-nettle red fescue redshank Rough-stalked meadow-grass Round-leaved fluellin Rye brome Rye-grass Italian Rye-grass perennial Scarlet pimpernel Scented mayweed Scentless mayweed Sharp-leaved fluellin Shepherd’s-needle Shepherd’s-purse Small nettle sow-thistle soft brome sow-thistle spear thistle Speedwell common field Speedwell green field Speedwell ivy-leaved Speedwell wall speedwell Sunflower Thistle Venus’s-looking-glass Vetch Wall speedwell Wheat White campion Wild carrot Wild-oat Wild pansy Wild radish Yorkshire-fog arable weeds osr management

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